On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Jacob Shucart <jacob at gluster.com> wrote: > With Gluster 3.1.1, you no longer need to do anything with the vol files. > If you create a volume like you did below, then you simply mount it like: > > mount -t glusterfs 172.16.16.50:/pool /pool/mount > > Gluster automatically gets the volume information when mounting. ?This is > described at: > > http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.1:_Manu > ally_Mounting_Volumes > > There is no need to do anything with the vol files you found in > /etc/glusterd, and in fact using these can cause some functionality such > as volume elasticity to break. Thanks, good to know. My specific use case is that I am re-exporting for CIFS -- the mount is local. My concern with using the ip address on the local machine for mounting was one of latency introduced for the round trip. Is this a valid concern? Cheers Kon
